LOFT PROPERTY: COLLECTABLE TOYS AND VALUES MAGAZINES

Do you have problems finding stuff at home?

I do. I've been in the attic twice this week to look for two things, a box of vintage toy magazines and a spare C21 Tank turret. Can I find them? Can I chuff!

The magazines are a large set of the old fab American magazine Collectable Toys and Values, some of which I've never even read.

However there's one I remember reading all the time. It was one of the first vintage toy magazines I ever bought, the brilliant Batman issue.

I'll let you know when I find it but in the meantime here's the cover. Is this a magazine you've read?

RISING TO THE CHALLENGE

 Wotan spoke about the possible S.W.O.R.D Moonbase LEM. 

Can't find footage of the one Wote mentioned.

This one is interesting I saw on You Tube. It rises but doesn't rotate.

Anyone got this MI Toy from Japan?

LOST IN THE POST .... AGAIN!

I've just refunded my second UK Ebay buyer this summer/ autumn. The items, vintage toys all rooted out of car boot rummage boxes with care and attention by myself, were lost in the post and never arrived at their UK destinations.

I am getting pretty damn tired of it.

Just how many parcels do the Royal mail lose? Where the hell do they go?

I have learnt my lesson and will now have to charge extra for tracked mail every time. 

What's your experience of your postal service as sellers or buyers readers?

MODEL PROSPECTS: NASA'S DISPLAY PROSPECTOR

 I adore this old NASA technical model of the Moon Prospector.

I particularly like the very long thin booms and the vehicle's overall flatness and sleekness, which I don't think any of the many eventual chunkier toy versions really captured.

I assume the device on the wheel was simply to allow the model to be stood up for display purposes as shown above. Would you agree?

Moonbase Mystery

Seeing the old pics of the Moonbase models and the attendant comments, I was put in mind of the reference to the 'Lunar Module' part of the toy, which states that it has a 'raising and lowering' ascent stage. A quick look on Alphadromes fabulous database reveals this toy which has just that kind of action and looks remarkably similar.

https://alphadrome.net/data/displayimage.php?album=search&cat=0&pid=4197#top_display_media
 

ABANDONED MOON BASES

 A trip into the Moonbase attic found two abandoned bases.

These two Moonbases were built in 2009 as part of a the blog's look at the fabled Project SWORD Moonbase toy, of which only two possible examples have ever been seen we think.

This large scratch built model was my own effort to capture the SWORD Base. It could do with another outing.

This smaller SpaceX-scale set was made by Wotan and again deserves another outing.

I shall see what technicians at Moonbase can do!

Have you made a moonbase?

VENUS IN VERSE

 Winter night on Moonbase. Venus in the dark. The ceaseless horizon. The cosmic spark.

TAR PIT KITS

Hi Woodsy

Recently the Aurora Prehistoric Scenes Tar Pit kit was mentioned. Here is a short item from You Tube, which looks at the various Aurora kits, including this one with a Vulture and part of a Wooly Rhinocerus who is disappearing into the tar.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JhX4ilGVC_g

Yours Sincerely,
Paul Adams from New Zealand